Reince Priebus Writes The Worst Paragraph You'll Read About Health Care All Day

March 23, 2011 5:15 pm ET —
Matt Finkelstein

There's no shortage of conservative misinformation
about the Affordable Care Act circulating on the one-year anniversary of the
law, but this excerpt from RNC Chairman Reince Priebus' op-ed
in the Daily Caller probably takes
the cake:

President Obama also fashioned his government takeover of
health care as a "jobs bill." In this case, as with his failed $821 billion
stimulus bill, the promised job gains haven't materialized. Quite the opposite,
in fact. According to Douglas Elmendorf, director of the non-partisan Congressional
Budget Office, Obamacare will actually reduce employment by nearly 800,000
jobs.

Let's
unpack this a bit:

(1) The Affordable Care Act is not
a "government takeover of health care." In fact, it does not include a
government-run option. PolitiFact.com named the "government takeover" talking
point its "Lie
of the Year" in
2010.

(3) Priebus is complaining that
jobs "haven't materialized" already, despite the fact that most of the law has not been implemented. That's sort of like
complaining that the House GOP's budget cuts haven't eliminated the deficit.